Julian Darley

Author

Julian Darley is the Founder and Director of the Post Carbon Institute in Vancouver, BC. The Post Carbon Institute is a think, action and education tank that aims to assist communities in the effort to relocalize and adapt to an energy constrained world. Darley also conceived of Global Public Media, an Internet public service broadcasting system.

Darley has a Masters in Environment and Social Research from the University of Surrey, a Masters in Journalism and Communications from the University of Texas at Austin, and a BA in Music & Russian. He currently lives in Vancouver, BC.

Michael Economides

Author, Professor of Chemical Engineering

Michael Economides is a professor of chemical engineering at the Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston, and the managing partner of a petroleum engineering and strategy consulting firm. He is the author of numerous professional textbooks, journal papers, articles and books, including The Color of Oil.

Economides appears regularly as a guest and expert commentator on national and international television programs and is the Editor-in-Chief of “World Energy Monthly Review.” He holds a Masters degree from the University of Kansas and a Ph.D in Petroleum Engineering from Stanford University.

Amy Goodman

Journalist, Author

Amy Goodman is a broadcast journalist and author. As an investigative journalist, she has aggressively pursued human rights violations in East Timor, Nigeria and other countries.

Well known as the host of Pacifica Radio’s “Democracy Now,” Goodman is also the author of the book Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers and the Media That Love Them. She has received numerous awards for her work including the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and the George Polk Award for “Drilling and Killing.” She graduated from Harvard University majoring in Anthropology.

Thom Hartmann

Broadcaster, author

Thom Hartmann is a broadcaster, author and psychotherapist. He won critical acclaim as the author of the book, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight. After reading this book, the Dalai Lama invited him to spend a week in Dharamsala. His book Unequal Protection won him the Project Censored Award. He has been published over two hundred times in more than fifty different national and international publications.

Hartmann received a Master of Herbology degree from Emerson College and a Ph.D in Homeopathic Medicine from Brantridge in England. He currently hosts a daily radio show in Portland, Oregon broadcast on KPOJ, an affiliate of Air America Radio.

Richard Heinberg

Journalist, Author, Professor

Richard Heinberg is a journalist, lecturer and educator who has written extensively on ecological issues. He is the author of many published books including The Party’s Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies and Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World.

He lives in Santa Rosa, California and is a core faculty member of New College of California, where he teaches courses on energy and society, culture, ecology and sustainable community.

Terry Lynn Karl

Journalist, Author, Professor

Terry Lynn Karl is a professor of Political Science at Stanford University. She has published widely on transitions to democracy, inequality, human rights and civil wars with special emphasis on the politics of oil exporting countries. Her work includes the books Bottom of the Barrel: Africa’s Oil Boom and the Poor, and The Paradox of Plenty: Oil Booms and Petro-States.

Karl has won numerous teaching and publication awards. She received her Masters and Ph.D in Political Science from Stanford University.